EP0572977A1 - Bilirubin assay using crosslinkable polymers - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to an assay for conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin in clinical chemistry. It also relates to a dry analytical element useful in this assay and to certain polymers which are particularly useful as binder material in the element.
- Bilirubin is a degradation product of hemoglobin.
- bilirubin released from aged or damaged red blood cells in the body is excreted or degraded into other derivatives.
- an abnormal amount of bilirubin occurs within the body in the case of excessive hemolysis or liver failure.
- excessive amounts of bilirubin in the blood can lead to an undesirable increase in bilirubin concentration within the body cells which interferes with various cellular processes.
- bilirubin exists in several different forms, these forms commonly being referred to in the art as conjugated bilirubin (B c , both mono- and diconjugated forms), unconjugated bilirubin (B u , also known as indirect bilirubin), and delta bilirubin (also known as biliprotein).
- B c conjugated bilirubin
- B u unconjugated bilirubin
- delta bilirubin also known as biliprotein
- the total bilirubin content (B T ) represents the sum of all forms of bilirubin.
- U.S. Pat. No. 4,069,017 describes an assay for bilirubin carried out on a dry multilayer analytical element containing an interactive mordant in a reagent layer which binds to bilirubin thereby producing a detectable product.
- the mordant also enhances the molar absorptivity of bilirubin and causes a spectral shift in the unconjugated moiety making possible the simultaneous analysis of both conjugated and unconjugated bilirubin by reading reflectance density at 400 and 460 nm.
- the element also comprises a porous spreading layer and a radiation-blocking layer.
- Chromophores which can cause spectral interference such as hemoglobin and delta bilirubin, are retained in the spreading layer above the radiation blocking layer.
- the bilirubin species, Bu and Bc migrate through the radiation blocking layer to bind with the mordant.
- the interactive mordant is dispersed in a binder material such as gelatin or its derivatives.
- gelatin and its derivatives have a slight color change over time in the 400 to 460 nm region of the spectrum, making for poor stability of the system.
- this polymer is not crosslinkable and the structural integrity of the element cannot be maintained during the analysis, resulting in interferences due to hemoglobin and deltabilirubin.
- This invention also provides a method for the determination of conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin in an aqueous liquid comprising the steps of:
- the element of this invention can be used in an assay for either conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin. Because of the crosslinkable polymer vehicle in the reagent layer, it is less susceptible to deterioration than prior art elements. Certain of these polymers are hydrolytically stable and thus the crosslinking will remain intact and maintain coating integrity. The element of the invention demonstrates better stability and less interference from serum pigments such as hemoglobin.
- the present invention relates to the determination of bilirubin (conjugated or unconjugated) in aqueous liquids.
- the invention can be used to assay biological fluids of either animals or humans, but preferably of humans.
- biological fluids include, but are not limited to, whole blood, plasma, serum, lymph, bile, urine, spinal fluid, sputum, perspiration and the like as well as stool secretions.
- assay fluid preparations of human or animal tissue such as skeletal muscle, heart, kidney, lungs, brains, bone marrow, skin and the like.
- the method of this invention can be practiced with a dry multilayer analytical element comprising a support having thereon a multiplicity of individual layers.
- the uppermost layer is a spreading layer to uniformly distribute the aqueous liquid over the element. Serum proteins and other pigments such as hemoglobin remain in the spreading layer on the basis of molecular size.
- a radiation-blocking layer directly beneath the spreading layer, allows the diffusion of bilirubin to the reagent layer underneath, but blocks light from the pigments retained in the spreading layer.
- the bottom layer contains a mordant to bind bilirubin.
- This mordant also enhances the molar absorptivity of bilirubin and causes a spectral shift in the unconjugated moiety making possible the simultaneous analysis of both conjugated and unconjugated bilirubin by reading reflectance density at 400 and 460 nm.
- this system depends on the successful separation of mordanted bilirubin beneath the radiation-blocking layer and other serum pigments above the radiation-blocking layer.
- the mordant/reagent layer then, must be free of pigments that absorb light in the 400 to 460 nm range of the spectrum.
- the support can be any suitable dimensionally stable, and preferably, nonporous and transparent (that is, radiation transmissive) material which transmits electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength between 200 and 900 nm.
- a support of choice for a particular element should be compatible with the intended mode of detection (for example, reflectance spectroscopy).
- Useful supports can be prepared from polystyrene, polyesters, polycarbonates, cellulose esters and other materials known in the art.
- the outermost layer is a porous spreading layer prepared from any suitable fibrous or non-fibrous material or mixtures of either or both.
- porous as used herein means being full of pores such that a fluid can be absorbed by capillary action and can pass to other layers in fluid contact with the porous layer. The void volume and average pore size of this zone can be varied depending upon the fluid to be tested.
- Useful spreading layers can be prepared using fibrous materials, either mixed with a suitable binder material or woven into a fabric, as described in U.S. Patent No. 4,292,272, polymeric compositions or particulate materials, for example, beads bound together with or without binding adhesives, as described in U.S. Patent Nos.
- the spreading zone be isotropically porous, meaning that the porosity is the same in each direction in the zone as caused by interconnected spaces or pores between particles, fibers or polymeric strands.
- the elements can have more than one spreading layer, each layer being prepared of the same or different materials and having the same or different porosity.
- the element also comprises a radiation-blocking layer which contains a suitable radiation-blocking pigment, for example titanium dioxide or barium sulfate, distributed in a suitable hydrophilic binder material which may be the same or different from that used in the reagent layer.
- a suitable radiation-blocking pigment for example titanium dioxide or barium sulfate
- the interactive mordant needed to bind with bilirubin to provide a detectable product is located in a reagent layer located beneath the radiation-blocking layer.
- the interactive mordants useful in the practice of this invention correspond to the mordants described in U.S. Patent No. 4,069,017 (noted above) and the hydrophobic amines described in U.K. Patent Specification No. 2,085,581 which are believed to become positively-charged mordants.
- these mordants have one or more binding sites for bilirubin and comprise at least one moiety having a hydrophobic organic matrix and a charge-bearing cationic group.
- Such mordants can be monomeric or polymeric, but preferred mordants are homopolymers and copolymers having the properties noted above. They bind both conjugated and unconjugated forms of bilirubin.
- the reagent layer also contains a hydrophilic binder material which is permeable to bilirubin.
- a hydrophilic binder material which is permeable to bilirubin.
- the binder material not contain gelatin or a derivative of gelatin. This binder material must also be non-interfering, that is, it must not interfere with the mordanting of bilirubin to the mordant described above. In other words, it should not be capable of binding or mordanting to bilirubin.
- subbing or filter layers can be included in the element if desired. All of the layers in the element are generally in fluid contact with each other, meaning that fluids and nonmordanted reagents and reaction products can pass or be transported between superposed regions of adjacent layers.
- the elements of the present invention are free of any interactive compositions which give a colorimetric or fluorometric response in the presence of bilirubin other than the interactive mordants described below.
- they are free of the diazonium salts and detectable ligands for forming detectable species known in the art for bilirubin determination, for example in U.S. Patent Nos. 4,069,016 and 4,548,905.
- the particularly useful binder materials of the present invention maintain the structural integrity of the element without absorbing light at 400 or 460 nm.
- the binder materials of the present invention comprise crosslinkable copolymers derived from:
- Polymers having active methylene or primary amine groups are conveniently crosslinked with conventional gelatin hardeners such as formaldehyde, glyoxal and dialdehydes such as succinaldehyde and glutaraldehyde as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,232,764; active esters such as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,542,558; active halogen compounds such as described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,106,468 and 3,957,882; s-triazines such as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,325,287; aziridines such as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,575,705; active olefins such as described in U.S. Patent No.
- vinylsulfones such as a bis(vinylsulfonylmethyl)ether and bis(vinylsulfonyl)methane as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,841,872 and U.S. Patent No.
- halogen-substituted aldehyde acids such as mucochloric and mucobromic acids
- polymeric hardeners such as dialdehyde starches
- poly(acrolein-co-methacrylic acid) poly(acrylamide-co-2-chloroethylsulfonylmethylstyrene) and poly(acrylamide-co-vinylsulfonylmethylstyrene.
- Polymers having activated halogen can be crosslinked with agents having two or more amino or mercapto groups such as ethylenediamine, 1,3-propanediamine, 1,3-propanedithiol, dithiothreitol, dithioerythritol, and butylenediamine.
- polymers of this invention are those which conform to the structure: wherein:
- Preparation of the polymers of the invention proceeds via conventional addition polymerization techniques such as by using redox initiator systems, such as persulfate-bisulfite or hydrogen peroxide, or organic soluble free-radical-generating initiating systems such as 2,2'-azobis(2-methylpropionitrile).
- redox initiator systems such as persulfate-bisulfite or hydrogen peroxide
- organic soluble free-radical-generating initiating systems such as 2,2'-azobis(2-methylpropionitrile).
- a hydrogen peroxide initiator in a conventional solution polymerization process, preferably using a mixture of water and isopropanol as the solvent.
- the amount of hydrophilic binder material in the mordant layer should be sufficient to adequately disperse the mordant therein and to form a suitable film. The amount will also depend upon the type of polymeric mordant used. Where the mordant is a film-forming polymer, less binder material may be needed. Generally, the amount of binder is from 2 to 20 g/m2 with amounts of from 5 to 20 g/m2 being preferred.
- bilirubin effectors can be added to one or more layers of the element, if desired.
- bilirubin effectors include sodium benzoate, caffeine, gum arabic, salicylate, bile salts and mixtures thereof.
- such materials are included in the porous spreading layer of the elements.
- Elements can be configured in a variety of forms, including elongated tapes of any desired width, sheets, slides or chips. Generally, the elements are individual slides which are packaged together in cartridges for use in automated analyzers.
- the assay of this invention can be manual or automated.
- bilirubin determination is made by taking the element from a supply roll, chip packet or other source and physically contacting it with a sample (for example up to 200 ⁇ l) of the liquid to be tested so that the sample and reagents (that is, the interactive mordant) within the element become mixed.
- a sample for example up to 200 ⁇ l
- Such contact can be accomplished in any suitable manner, for example, by dipping or immersing the element into the liquid or, preferably, by spotting the element by hand or machine with a drop of the liquid with a suitable dispensing means.
- the element can be exposed to conditioning, such as incubation, heating or the like, that may be desirable to quicken or otherwise facilitate obtaining any test result.
- conditioning such as incubation, heating or the like, that may be desirable to quicken or otherwise facilitate obtaining any test result.
- the method and elements of this invention can be used to measure either conjugated or unconjugated forms of bilirubin according to the teaching of U.S. Patent No. 4,338,095, noted above, and which is incorporated herein by reference.
- this selective measurement of one or both forms of bilirubin is accomplished by contact of liquid and element as described above, and by measuring the absorption or emission spectra at two or more wavelengths and performing the appropriate calculations.
- crosslinkable copolymers used in the element of the invention are prepared as follows.
- Triethylamine 24 g, 0.24 mole was added dropwise at 0°C to a solution of N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride (40 g, 0.24 mole) and diketene (20 g, 0.24 mole) in methanol (800 ml). After addition, the temperature was maintained at 0°C for 2 hours under stirring. Stirring was continued at 20°C for 20 hours. The solvent was then removed. The residue was dissolved in chloroform (1 liter), washed with 5% hydrochloric acid (200 ml), washed with saturated NaHCO3 (200 ml), dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and filtered. Excess solvent was removed.
- This material was prepared in the same manner as Example 3 except the polymer was precipitated in acetone (5 gal), filtered, dried in a vacuum oven and redissolved in H2O at 17.4% solids. Also, N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride was used instead of N-(3-acetoacetamidopropyl)methacrylamide.
- This material was prepared in the same manner as Example 4 except that N-(3-chloroacetamidopropyl)methacrylamide was used instead of N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride.
- the two control elements were prepared in the same manner as the element of the present invention except that one had hardened gelatin as the binder material in the reagent layer, and the other had poly(acrylamide-co-N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone)(Weight ratio 50/50).
- the element of the present invention had the format and components illustrated below.
- dry used herein to describe the weight of the components indicates that the coating coverage is determined as dry weight after normal coating and drying processes.
- the effectiveness of the binder materials in the reagent layers of five different elements were evaluated as follows. A pool of neonate serum was divided into five pools and spiked with 0, 50, 100, 200 and 300 mg/dL of hemoglobin in the form of a hemolysate. The spiked pools were then run and Bu and Bc predictions obtained. Slides to be tested were calibrated on a KODAK EKTACHEM analyzer using standard calibrators. The changes in predicted Bu and Bc concentrations were tabulated as a function of hemoglobin concentration.
- Table II illustrates the results for the five types of elements tested. Table II Changes in Predicted Concentration Due to Addition of Hemoglobin: All Values are in mg/dL Bc Bu Hemoglobin Added: 50 100 200 300 50 100 200 300 Standard Formula 0.41 0.76 1.54 2.11 -0.34 -0.59 -1.17 -1.45 Hardened Gel 0.28 0.55 1.08 1.44 -0.18 -0.32 -0.63 -0.79 Polymer i 0.36 0.55 1.25 1.59 -0.22 -0.40 -0.78 -0.99 Polymer ii 0.18 0.32 0.60 0.78 -0.16 -0.21 -0.39 -0.48 Polymer iii 0.27 0.50 1.02 1.35 -0.19 -0.29 -0.64 -0.80
- Polymer iii was crosslinked with dithiothreitol(DTT).
- the other binders were crosslinked with Bis(Vinylsulfonylmethyl ether (BVSME).
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- This invention relates to an assay for conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin in clinical chemistry. It also relates to a dry analytical element useful in this assay and to certain polymers which are particularly useful as binder material in the element.
- Bilirubin is a degradation product of hemoglobin. In a healthy individual, bilirubin released from aged or damaged red blood cells in the body is excreted or degraded into other derivatives. In some cases, however, an abnormal amount of bilirubin occurs within the body in the case of excessive hemolysis or liver failure. There is evidence that excessive amounts of bilirubin in the blood can lead to an undesirable increase in bilirubin concentration within the body cells which interferes with various cellular processes. The clinical significance of bilirubin determination, then, in tests for liver and other related organ functions, is apparent.
- In human body fluids such as bile and serum, bilirubin exists in several different forms, these forms commonly being referred to in the art as conjugated bilirubin (Bc, both mono- and diconjugated forms), unconjugated bilirubin (Bu, also known as indirect bilirubin), and delta bilirubin (also known as biliprotein). The total bilirubin content (B T ), represents the sum of all forms of bilirubin.
- A variety of colorimetric assays for bilirubin are known. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,069,017 describes an assay for bilirubin carried out on a dry multilayer analytical element containing an interactive mordant in a reagent layer which binds to bilirubin thereby producing a detectable product. The mordant also enhances the molar absorptivity of bilirubin and causes a spectral shift in the unconjugated moiety making possible the simultaneous analysis of both conjugated and unconjugated bilirubin by reading reflectance density at 400 and 460 nm. The element also comprises a porous spreading layer and a radiation-blocking layer. Chromophores which can cause spectral interference, such as hemoglobin and delta bilirubin, are retained in the spreading layer above the radiation blocking layer. The bilirubin species, Bu and Bc, migrate through the radiation blocking layer to bind with the mordant. The interactive mordant is dispersed in a binder material such as gelatin or its derivatives.
- Unfortunately, gelatin and its derivatives have a slight color change over time in the 400 to 460 nm region of the spectrum, making for poor stability of the system.
- A significant advance in the art is described in U.S. 4,788,153 (issued November 29, 1988 to Detwiler). The assay for bilirubin described therein is carried out on an analytical element substantially free of gelatin in the reagent layer. An alternative polymer, poly(acrylamide-co-N-vinylpyrrolidinone), was used as the reagent layer vehicle.
- However, this polymer is not crosslinkable and the structural integrity of the element cannot be maintained during the analysis, resulting in interferences due to hemoglobin and deltabilirubin.
- It is therefore desirable to obtain for use in the reagent layer binder materials that do not absorb light in the 400 to 460 nm range of the spectrum, and which maintain structural integrity.
- The problems described above have been solved with an analytical element for the determination of conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin comprising a support having thereon, in order:
- (A) a reagent layer comprising a positively-charged interactive mordant for bilirubin, said mordant being dispersed in a binder material which is a copolymer derived from:
- (1) one or more monomers selected from the group consisting of acrylamide and N-vinylpyrrolidinone; and
- (2) one or more crosslinkable monomers selected from the group consisting of (i) primary amino group-containing monomers, (ii) active methylene group-containing monomers, and (iii)activated halogen group-containing monomers;
- (B) a radiation blocking layer; and
- (C) a porous spreading layer.
- This invention also provides a method for the determination of conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin in an aqueous liquid comprising the steps of:
- (A) contacting the aqueous liquid with the above-described analytical element; and
- (B) measuring the amount of conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin bound to said interactive mordant.
- The element of this invention can be used in an assay for either conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin. Because of the crosslinkable polymer vehicle in the reagent layer, it is less susceptible to deterioration than prior art elements. Certain of these polymers are hydrolytically stable and thus the crosslinking will remain intact and maintain coating integrity. The element of the invention demonstrates better stability and less interference from serum pigments such as hemoglobin.
- It was surprising to find that incorporation of certain monomers capable of being crosslinked with common hardeners could produce polymeric binder materials showing such significant improvements. These results were unexpected because crosslinking affects diffusion in and out of the reagent layer and therefore would be expected to have deleterious effects on the diffusion of reagents in the element. As explained below, it is important that all reagents in the element be in fluid contact.
- Further, some monomers of the invention have reactive methylene groups which, under high pH conditions, would be expected to form condensation products leading to yellow color interferents. Surprisingly, color interference did not occur.
- The present invention relates to the determination of bilirubin (conjugated or unconjugated) in aqueous liquids. In particular, the invention can be used to assay biological fluids of either animals or humans, but preferably of humans. Such fluids include, but are not limited to, whole blood, plasma, serum, lymph, bile, urine, spinal fluid, sputum, perspiration and the like as well as stool secretions. It is also possible to assay fluid preparations of human or animal tissue such as skeletal muscle, heart, kidney, lungs, brains, bone marrow, skin and the like.
- The method of this invention can be practiced with a dry multilayer analytical element comprising a support having thereon a multiplicity of individual layers. The uppermost layer is a spreading layer to uniformly distribute the aqueous liquid over the element. Serum proteins and other pigments such as hemoglobin remain in the spreading layer on the basis of molecular size. A radiation-blocking layer, directly beneath the spreading layer, allows the diffusion of bilirubin to the reagent layer underneath, but blocks light from the pigments retained in the spreading layer. The bottom layer contains a mordant to bind bilirubin. This mordant also enhances the molar absorptivity of bilirubin and causes a spectral shift in the unconjugated moiety making possible the simultaneous analysis of both conjugated and unconjugated bilirubin by reading reflectance density at 400 and 460 nm.
- In addition to the spectral enhancement properties of the mordant, this system depends on the successful separation of mordanted bilirubin beneath the radiation-blocking layer and other serum pigments above the radiation-blocking layer. The mordant/reagent layer, then, must be free of pigments that absorb light in the 400 to 460 nm range of the spectrum.
- The support can be any suitable dimensionally stable, and preferably, nonporous and transparent (that is, radiation transmissive) material which transmits electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength between 200 and 900 nm. A support of choice for a particular element should be compatible with the intended mode of detection (for example, reflectance spectroscopy). Useful supports can be prepared from polystyrene, polyesters, polycarbonates, cellulose esters and other materials known in the art.
- The outermost layer is a porous spreading layer prepared from any suitable fibrous or non-fibrous material or mixtures of either or both. The term "porous" as used herein means being full of pores such that a fluid can be absorbed by capillary action and can pass to other layers in fluid contact with the porous layer. The void volume and average pore size of this zone can be varied depending upon the fluid to be tested. Useful spreading layers can be prepared using fibrous materials, either mixed with a suitable binder material or woven into a fabric, as described in U.S. Patent No. 4,292,272, polymeric compositions or particulate materials, for example, beads bound together with or without binding adhesives, as described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,992,158, 4,258,001 and 4,430,436 and Japanese Patent Publication No. 57(1982)-101760. It is desirable that the spreading zone be isotropically porous, meaning that the porosity is the same in each direction in the zone as caused by interconnected spaces or pores between particles, fibers or polymeric strands.
- The elements can have more than one spreading layer, each layer being prepared of the same or different materials and having the same or different porosity.
- The element also comprises a radiation-blocking layer which contains a suitable radiation-blocking pigment, for example titanium dioxide or barium sulfate, distributed in a suitable hydrophilic binder material which may be the same or different from that used in the reagent layer.
- The interactive mordant needed to bind with bilirubin to provide a detectable product is located in a reagent layer located beneath the radiation-blocking layer. The interactive mordants useful in the practice of this invention correspond to the mordants described in U.S. Patent No. 4,069,017 (noted above) and the hydrophobic amines described in U.K. Patent Specification No. 2,085,581 which are believed to become positively-charged mordants. In general, these mordants have one or more binding sites for bilirubin and comprise at least one moiety having a hydrophobic organic matrix and a charge-bearing cationic group. Such mordants can be monomeric or polymeric, but preferred mordants are homopolymers and copolymers having the properties noted above. They bind both conjugated and unconjugated forms of bilirubin.
- The reagent layer also contains a hydrophilic binder material which is permeable to bilirubin. As noted above, it is preferred that the binder material not contain gelatin or a derivative of gelatin. This binder material must also be non-interfering, that is, it must not interfere with the mordanting of bilirubin to the mordant described above. In other words, it should not be capable of binding or mordanting to bilirubin.
- A list of useful mordants and binder materials is described in U.S. Patent No. 4,788,153. The specific hydrophilic binder materials used in the present invention are described in more detail below.
- Other layers, for example, subbing or filter layers, can be included in the element if desired. All of the layers in the element are generally in fluid contact with each other, meaning that fluids and nonmordanted reagents and reaction products can pass or be transported between superposed regions of adjacent layers.
- The elements of the present invention are free of any interactive compositions which give a colorimetric or fluorometric response in the presence of bilirubin other than the interactive mordants described below. In particular, they are free of the diazonium salts and detectable ligands for forming detectable species known in the art for bilirubin determination, for example in U.S. Patent Nos. 4,069,016 and 4,548,905.
- The particularly useful binder materials of the present invention maintain the structural integrity of the element without absorbing light at 400 or 460 nm. The binder materials of the present invention comprise crosslinkable copolymers derived from:
- A) one or more monomers comprising 0 to 99, preferably 40 to 60, and most preferably 45 to 55 weight percent of the total binder polymer, said one or more monomers being selected from the group consisting of acrylamide monomers and the monomer 1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidinone. Examples of suitable acrylamide monomers include acrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamide, N-(1,1-dimethyl-3-oxobutyl)acrylamide, 2-acrylamido-2-hydroxymethyl-1,3-propanediol, N-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)acrylamide, N,N-dimethylacrylamide, N,N-diethylacrylamide, and 3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)acrylamide. Particularly preferred is unsubstituted acrylamide; and
- B) one or more monomers comprising 1 to 10, preferably 2 to 5 weight percent of the total binder polymer, said one or more monomers having reactive groups capable of reaction with a crosslinking agent to crosslink the copolymer, and being selected from the group consisting of:
- (i) primary amino group-containing monomers and the acid addition salts thereof such as N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride, 2-aminoethyl methacrylate hydrochloride, and p-aminostyrene.
- (ii) active methylene group-containing monomers, that is, monomers having a
- (iii) activated halogen group-containing monomers which have appended halomethylaryl, halomethylcarbonyl, halomethylsulfonyl, haloethylcarbonyl, and haloethylsulfonyl groups which will, after polymerization, also undergo crosslinking with a suitable crosslinking agent such as a diamine, dithiol, diol, and so forth. Monomers having such halomethylaryl groups, for example, vinylbenzyl chloride, and vinylbenzyl bromide are disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 4,017,442. Useful monomers having appended haloethylsulfonyl groups such as m- and p-(2-chloroethylsulfonylmethyl)-styrene and N-(4-chloroethylsulfonylmethylphenyl)acrylamide are described in U.S. Patent Nos. 4,161,407 and 4,548,870. Monomers which provide halomethylcarbonyl crosslinkable groups include vinyl chloracetate, N-(3-chloroacetamidopropyl) methacrylamide, 2-chloroacetamidoethyl methacrylate, 4-chloracetamidostyrene, m- and p-chloracetamidomethylstyrene, N-(3-chloroacetamidocarbonyliminopropyl)methacrylamide, 2-chloroacetamidocarbonyliminoethylmethacrylate, 4-chloracetamidocarbonyliminostyrene, m- and p-chloracetamidocarbonyliminomethylstyrene, N-vinyl-N'-(3-chloropropionyl)urea, 4-(3-chloropropionamido)styrene, 4-(3-chloropropionamidocarbonylimino)styrene, 2-(3-chloropropionamido)ethyl methacrylate, and N-[2-(3-chloropropionamido)ethyl]methacrylamide;
- Polymers having active methylene or primary amine groups are conveniently crosslinked with conventional gelatin hardeners such as formaldehyde, glyoxal and dialdehydes such as succinaldehyde and glutaraldehyde as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,232,764; active esters such as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,542,558; active halogen compounds such as described in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,106,468 and 3,957,882; s-triazines such as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,325,287; aziridines such as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,575,705; active olefins such as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,490,911 and 3,640,720; vinylsulfones such as a bis(vinylsulfonylmethyl)ether and bis(vinylsulfonyl)methane as described in U.S. Patent No. 3,841,872 and U.S. Patent No. 3,539,644; halogen-substituted aldehyde acids such as mucochloric and mucobromic acids; and polymeric hardeners such as dialdehyde starches; poly(acrolein-co-methacrylic acid); poly(acrylamide-co-2-chloroethylsulfonylmethylstyrene) and poly(acrylamide-co-vinylsulfonylmethylstyrene.
- Polymers having activated halogen can be crosslinked with agents having two or more amino or mercapto groups such as ethylenediamine, 1,3-propanediamine, 1,3-propanedithiol, dithiothreitol, dithioerythritol, and butylenediamine.
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- (A) represents recurring units of one or more polymerized acrylamide monomers of the type described above;
- (B) represents recurring units of polymerized 1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidinone;
R¹ is hydrogen or methyl;
L is a linking group which is at least one, and preferably a combination of at least two, of the types of groups selected from alkylene of 1 to 30, preferably 1 to 10, carbon atoms; arylene groups of 6 to 12 ring carbon atoms, such as phenylene, tolylene, xylylene and naphthylene, -Z-, and
R² is a reactive group selected from the group consisting of: - i) primary amino and acid addition salts thereof, that is, -NH₂ and -NH₂·HX where X is an acid anion such as halide, for example, chloride, bromide, fluoride, and iodide;
- ii) an active methylene group, that is, a group having an acid hydrogen atom that is easily displaced by a nucleophile, preferably conforming to the structure
- iii) an activated halogen group selected from halomethylaryl such as chloromethylphenyl, halomethylcarbonyl such as chloroacetyl, haloethylcarbonyl such as 3-chloropropionyl, and haloethylsulfonyl such as 2-chloroethylsulfonyl, said activated halogen groups preferably conforming to the structure:
HALO-CH₂-R⁶-
where HALO represents a halogen atom, preferably chloro or bromo and -R⁶- is carbonyl, an ester (-COO-), amide
x, y, and z represent weight percents, totalling 100, of the recurring units such that x is 0 to 99, preferably 40 to 60, and most preferably 45 to 55, y is 0 to 99, preferably 40 to 60, and most preferably 45 to 55, and z is 1 to 10, preferably 2 to 5 weight percent. - Preparation of the polymers of the invention proceeds via conventional addition polymerization techniques such as by using redox initiator systems, such as persulfate-bisulfite or hydrogen peroxide, or organic soluble free-radical-generating initiating systems such as 2,2'-azobis(2-methylpropionitrile). We prefer to use a hydrogen peroxide initiator in a conventional solution polymerization process, preferably using a mixture of water and isopropanol as the solvent.
- The amount of hydrophilic binder material in the mordant layer should be sufficient to adequately disperse the mordant therein and to form a suitable film. The amount will also depend upon the type of polymeric mordant used. Where the mordant is a film-forming polymer, less binder material may be needed. Generally, the amount of binder is from 2 to 20 g/m² with amounts of from 5 to 20 g/m² being preferred.
- Other optional addenda (including buffers, surfactants and the like) can be added to one or more layers of the element, if desired. Also useful in the element are one or more bilirubin effectors, or promotors as they are also known in the art. Such materials include sodium benzoate, caffeine, gum arabic, salicylate, bile salts and mixtures thereof. Preferably, such materials are included in the porous spreading layer of the elements.
- A variety of different elements, depending on the method of assay, can be prepared in accordance with the present invention. Elements can be configured in a variety of forms, including elongated tapes of any desired width, sheets, slides or chips. Generally, the elements are individual slides which are packaged together in cartridges for use in automated analyzers.
- The assay of this invention can be manual or automated. In general, in using the dry elements, bilirubin determination is made by taking the element from a supply roll, chip packet or other source and physically contacting it with a sample (for example up to 200 µl) of the liquid to be tested so that the sample and reagents (that is, the interactive mordant) within the element become mixed. Such contact can be accomplished in any suitable manner, for example, by dipping or immersing the element into the liquid or, preferably, by spotting the element by hand or machine with a drop of the liquid with a suitable dispensing means.
- After liquid application, the element can be exposed to conditioning, such as incubation, heating or the like, that may be desirable to quicken or otherwise facilitate obtaining any test result.
- When the mordant binds to bilirubin, a detectable change results which is readily measured using suitable apparatus for reflection spectrophotometry. Such apparatus is well known in the art. The signal from the detectable species so measured is indicative of the amount of bilirubin in the fluid tested.
- The method and elements of this invention can be used to measure either conjugated or unconjugated forms of bilirubin according to the teaching of U.S. Patent No. 4,338,095, noted above, and which is incorporated herein by reference. Generally, this selective measurement of one or both forms of bilirubin is accomplished by contact of liquid and element as described above, and by measuring the absorption or emission spectra at two or more wavelengths and performing the appropriate calculations.
- The crosslinkable copolymers used in the element of the invention are prepared as follows.
- Triethylamine (24 g, 0.24 mole) was added dropwise at 0°C to a solution of N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride (40 g, 0.24 mole) and diketene (20 g, 0.24 mole) in methanol (800 ml). After addition, the temperature was maintained at 0°C for 2 hours under stirring. Stirring was continued at 20°C for 20 hours. The solvent was then removed. The residue was dissolved in chloroform (1 liter), washed with 5% hydrochloric acid (200 ml), washed with saturated NaHCO₃ (200 ml), dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and filtered. Excess solvent was removed. The residue was recrystallized from benzene (500 ml) and ethyl ether (500 ml) to give N-(3-acetoacetamidopropyl)methacrylamide (melting point = 93°-94°C) at a yield of 50%.
- In a 3-liter 4-neck flask fitted with condenser, stirrer, and 2-dropping funnels were placed N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride (157 g 0.88 moles) in methanol (1.2 L) and 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-cresol (1.0 g). In one funnel was placed chloroacetyl chloride (100 g, 0.89 mole), and in funnel two was placed triethylamine (178 g, 1.76 mole). The solution was cooled to 0-5°C (ice-methanol), and triethylamine was added in a slow stream over 30 minutes, and the chloroacetyl chloride was added over 1 hour. After the addition, the temperature was maintained at 0°C for 2 hours, the ice bath was removed, and stirring was continued at room temperature overnight. The solvent was removed, and to the residue was added hot ethyl acetate (500 mL). The mixture was filtered to remove triethylamine hydrochloride, then the solid was washed with hot ethyl acetate (500 mL), filtered again, the filtrate combined, and the solvent was removed on a rotary evaporator. The residue was crystallized from ethyl acetate (400 mL) by heating to dissolve, filtering to remove any solid present, and cooling to 0°C to crystallize. The crude monomer was purified by chromatography on a silica gel packed column. The product was eluted from the column using a 1:1 mixture of ethyl acetate and dichloromethane (4 L). The collected solvent was evaporated, and the residue crystallized from ethyl acetate (300 mL) with 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-cresol (500 mg) to give a white crystalline compound, mp 85-90°C, 83 g (43% yield). Analysis Calculated for C₉H₁₅C1N₂O₂: C, 49.4; H, 6.9; N, 12.8; Cl, 16.2. Found: C, 49.0; H, 7.6; N, 13.2; Cl, 17.3.
- To a solution of acrylamide (105.3 g, 1.4 moles), N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidinone (105.3 g, 0.94 mole), N-(3-acetoacetamidopropyl)methacrylamide (5.4 g, 0.024 mole), and hydrogen peroxide (8.0 g, 30% in water) in H₂O (1.8 L) and isopropanol (400 mL) which had been degassed with nitrogen was heated at 65-70°C under a nitrogen atmosphere for 5 hours and allowed to sit at ambient temperature overnight. The next day the solution was concentrated at low heat (40-50°C) on a rotary evaporator to 1 L (20.5% solids). This solution was used directly for coating.
- This material was prepared in the same manner as Example 3 except the polymer was precipitated in acetone (5 gal), filtered, dried in a vacuum oven and redissolved in H₂O at 17.4% solids. Also, N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride was used instead of N-(3-acetoacetamidopropyl)methacrylamide.
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- This material was prepared in the same manner as Example 4 except that N-(3-chloroacetamidopropyl)methacrylamide was used instead of N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride.
- This is a comparison between the element of the present invention and two control elements. The two control elements were prepared in the same manner as the element of the present invention except that one had hardened gelatin as the binder material in the reagent layer, and the other had poly(acrylamide-co-N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone)(Weight ratio 50/50).
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- The effectiveness of the binder materials in the reagent layers of five different elements were evaluated as follows. A pool of neonate serum was divided into five pools and spiked with 0, 50, 100, 200 and 300 mg/dL of hemoglobin in the form of a hemolysate. The spiked pools were then run and Bu and Bc predictions obtained. Slides to be tested were calibrated on a KODAK EKTACHEM analyzer using standard calibrators. The changes in predicted Bu and Bc concentrations were tabulated as a function of hemoglobin concentration.
- Table II illustrates the results for the five types of elements tested.
Table II Changes in Predicted Concentration Due to Addition of Hemoglobin: All Values are in mg/dL Bc Bu Hemoglobin Added: 50 100 200 300 50 100 200 300 Standard Formula 0.41 0.76 1.54 2.11 -0.34 -0.59 -1.17 -1.45 Hardened Gel 0.28 0.55 1.08 1.44 -0.18 -0.32 -0.63 -0.79 Polymer i 0.36 0.55 1.25 1.59 -0.22 -0.40 -0.78 -0.99 Polymer ii 0.18 0.32 0.60 0.78 -0.16 -0.21 -0.39 -0.48 Polymer iii 0.27 0.50 1.02 1.35 -0.19 -0.29 -0.64 -0.80 - Polymer iii was crosslinked with dithiothreitol(DTT). The other binders were crosslinked with Bis(Vinylsulfonylmethyl ether (BVSME).
- The above results show that all of the crosslinkable binders (gelatin and polymers i, ii, and iii) show less change due to hemoglobin. In particular, polymer ii shows the least change. Thus, these polymers and gelatin are less sensitive to interference by hemoglobin. These polymers are hydrolytically stable and thus the crosslinking is expected to remain intact and maintain coating integrity.
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- An analytical element for the determination of conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin comprising a support having thereon, in order from said support:(A) a reagent layer comprising a positively-charged interactive mordant for bilirubin, said mordant being dispersed in a binder material;(B) a radiation blocking layer; and(C) a porous spreading layer.;
characterized in that the binder material is a copolymer derived from:(1) one or more monomers selected from the group consisting of acrylamide and N-vinylpyrrolidinone; and(2) one or more crosslinkable monomers selected from the group consisting of (i) primary amino group-containing monomers; and (ii) activated halogen group-containing monomers. - The analytical element of claim 1 wherein the binder material in the reagent layer conforms to the structure:(A) represents recurring units of one or more polymerized acrylamide monomers;(B) represents recurring units of polymerized 1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidinone;R¹ is hydrogen or methyl;
R² is a reactive group selected from the group consisting of:i) a primary amino group and acid addition salts thereof; and ii) activated halogen group;L is a linking group; and
x, y, and z represent weight percents of the recurring units in the binder polymer wherein x = 0-99, y = 0-99 and z = 1-10. - The analytical element of claim 1 or 2 wherein the binder material in the reagent layer is poly[acrylamide-co-N-vinylpyrrolidinone-co-N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride].
- The analytical element of claim 1 or 2 wherein the binder material in the reagent layer is poly[acrylamide-co-N-vinylpyrrolidinone-co-N-(3-chloroacetamidopropyl)methacrylamide].
- The element of claim 1 or 2 wherein the radiation blocking layer comprises inorganic pigment particles dispersed in a binder material similar to the binder material in the reagent layer.
- The element of claim 1 or 2 wherein the radiation blocking layer comprises inorganic pigment particles dispersed in a binder material other than the binder material in the reagent layer.
- An analytical element for the determination of conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin comprising a support having thereon, in order:(A) a reagent layer comprising a positively-charged interactive mordant for bilirubin, said mordant being dispersed in a first hydrophilic binder material;(B) a radiation blocking layer comprising an inorganic pigment dispersed in a second hydrophilic binder material, and(C) a porous spreading layer
characterized in that the first binder material is selected from the group consisting of poly[acrylamide-co-N-vinylpyrrolidinone-co-N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide hydrochloride], and poly[acrylamide-co-N-vinylpyrrolidinone-co-N-(3-chloroacetamidopropyl)methacrylamide]. - A method for the determination of conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin comprising the steps of:(A) contacting an aqueous liquid with the analytical element of claim 1; and(B) measuring the amount of conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin bound to said interactive mordant.
- The method of claim 8 wherein conjugated and unconjugated bilirubin are determined by spectrophotometric measurements at more than one wavelength.
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